zondag: definitie van een reis

“This record is about a journey. A journey to Africa. A long trip across the Sahara desert into the bush. One day, as we were listening to some music, beautiful jungle music by the Pygmys, we decided right there and then we would go to Africa. That we got to go to Africa.“

“We got a map and after some thinking about, we decided to cross the continent from Tangiers to Zanzibar in a sort of snaky line. The whole trip was to last 3 months which we thought was plenty of time.“

“Well, as you may have guessed, we never got to Zanzibar. First of all, there were wars going on in several parts of Africa, and it was impossible to go trough countries like Nigeria and the Tchad, especially as we were looking for piece and our presence in a country at war would have been of no use to anybody“

“After 2 years, three of us finally arrived in Dakar and came back to Europe with lots of recorded music, instruments and Elvis Mammadou, a bushdog. We had started 15 but, most of the crowd copped out after 6 months. Those who stayed on, kept just what was necessary for making and recording music.“